Outside Looking in: A Tribute to The Heart is a Lonely Hunter for DC’s Big Read

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Special Event – April 23, 2009

For the third year in a row, SpeakeasyDC will be part of DC’s Big Read.This year’s book is “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers. SpeakeasyDC’s performance, featuring original stories that touch on themes from the book, will take place on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at Busboys & Poets at 7:30 pm and is FREE!

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment.

Hears true stories about communication break-throughs on the Red Line, modern-day labor struggles and African-American self-defense networks in the post-war American South from:
Hari Jones, curator of the African-American Civil War Memorial
Rita Daniels, Executive Director, Literacy Volunteers and Advocates (LVA)
Andrew Korfhage, Writer, Storyteller
Kathy McGregor, Registered Nurse and Labor Organizer, National Nurses Organizing Committee

Featuring live music by Sadie Dingfelder (violin), Matthew Malamud (violin), Vince Kane (classical guitar), Steve Hay (flute)

Sadie Dingfelder was initiated into the terrifying world of improvisation when, in 2004, she was recruited off her front porch to play with a bluegrass band. Though she’s been playing classical violin since age 10, it took many on-the-house drinks to get Sadie onstage without the comfort of sheet music. Now, she’s hooked, thanks to very fun shows at the 9:30 Club, the Red and the Black, and the Black Cat with bands including Junior League and, most recently, Hot Coffee, Mississippi. For DC’s Big Read, she looks forward to returning to her classical roots. Photo: www.rachel-eisley.com

The Big Read, is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwe st. The Big Read – D.C. is presented by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. www.wdchumanities.org